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(We will keep you updated when more information is out, as it hasn't reached the media as of yet)

Zimbo_Mukiwa"Protecting Africa's wildlife and wild landscapes is the key to the future prosperity of Africa and its people!"------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"Given the right help, even the rarest creatures can return from the brink. If we show the will, nature will find the way.""wildlife cannot be saved singly; you have to protect their constant environment, which includes protecting all forms of their prey/food sources from poaching activities and their home ranges being invaded by human population explosion. It is about protecting their environment." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

As promised I'll keep you updated as and when more news comes in; this is what was reported today in the media regarding the latest on the 3 poachers shot:-

The three were part of a group of poachers who resisted arrest after being confronted by rangers in the Chipangayi Safari Area early Tuesday. Two other poachers were arrested while a sixth got away.

THREE suspected rhino poachers were shot and killed by game rangers in the Chipangayi Safari Area near Chiredzi on Tuesday morningTwo others were arrested and their vehicle impounded, while a third suspect escaped the net in a Toyota Corolla. Rangers, acting on a tip off, waylaid the suspected poachers - Sakhile Ncube, Nicholas Tswami and Million Chauke, all from Beitbridge - and killed them in the pre-dawn ambush after exchanging gunfire.

The National Parks and Wildlife Management Authority has since recovered a 306 rifle fitted with a silencer, 18 live rounds of ammunition, two knives, two cellphones and two bags used by the poachers. Parks public relations manager Ms Caroline Washaya-Moyo yesterday said the poachers had been under surveillance after being sold out by a once-duped colleague.

"Information was received by officers based at Buffalo Range Airport, working with a reliable informer that an organised armed poaching group wanted to enter Chipangayi Safari area for the purposes of poaching rhinos," said Ms Washaya-Moyo.

Zimbabwe is battling to conserve its dwindling population of black and white rhinos. At least 14 have been killed so far this year.

Earlier this month a magistrate in the southern town of Masvingo sentenced two rhino poachers from neighbouring Mozambique to 21 years each in jail.

Zimbo_Mukiwa"Protecting Africa's wildlife and wild landscapes is the key to the future prosperity of Africa and its people!"------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"Given the right help, even the rarest creatures can return from the brink. If we show the will, nature will find the way.""wildlife cannot be saved singly; you have to protect their constant environment, which includes protecting all forms of their prey/food sources from poaching activities and their home ranges being invaded by human population explosion. It is about protecting their environment." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------